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As an academic, I am always looking for books that chronicle the currents that underlie the surface waves of contemporary events. Mark Polizzotti's Why Surrealism Matters does a nice and well-written job of reviewing the intellectual origin of much of today's art and pop-culture fads. Surrealism arose primarily in poetry and painting, more so than in other art forms at any rate. I particularly like how Polizzotti organizes the material by theme to shows the present-day presence and relevance of surrealism. Hint: it involves much more than scratching one's head at Salvador Dali's fantastic canvasses.
An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate
"Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement's aspirations and attainments against its flaws and contradictions, hoping to recuperate Surrealism's 'critical and imaginative essence' for the present. . . . The best concise account of the movement available."-Michael Saler, Wall Street Journal
Selected by Art in America as an "Essential Book About Surrealism"
Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after Andre Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism? How do we encounter Surrealism today? Mark Polizzotti vibrantly reframes the Surrealist movement in contemporary terms and…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Ibn Khaldun's book is a classic work of world history, written in the mid-1300s CE. It is part of a seven-volume work and the first volume (The Introduction, or Muqaddimah) is the best known and most read. Readers who wish to read an Islamic polymath may be pleasantly surprised by Ibn Khaldun's erudite mind and by how "modern" many of his discussions about politics, economy, and culture are. Several versions are available in translation. I read the Princeton University Press abridged version, 2015.
The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in the United States and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation first appeared in 1969.…
